PCPerspective reviews the soon to be released Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core CPU
[i]With the release of their Opteron dual core processors back in April, and their corresponding announcement of the upcoming Athlon 64 X2 line of processors, AMD threw its hat officially into the dual core processor arena. And truth be told, AMD was much more prepared for the fight. Having been in the plans of the Athlon 64 since early on, adding a second core to the Athlon 64 turns out to be a much simpler and more elegant solution than what Intel has presented us thus far.[/i]
The Athlon X2 processors are based on the Rev E stepping of the Athlon 64 core and include the SSE3 instructions as well as mixed memory support and support for a full four DIMM slot configuration. There were some other changes that were made as well that allow the new 90nm X2 processor to run at a significantly lower power/performance ratio than previous Athlon 64 processors. In our conclusions page, you’ll see that our X2 4400+ doesn’t use much more power than our 4000+ processor, which is running at 200 MHz faster frequency.
Source: PCPerspective.com
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